Barbara Granek, MBA ’12, founder and CEO of Fishtag, believes students who participate in Action Learning at MIT Sloan presume they will gain valuable, relevant business experience. They often do. But the lab courses also afford them a unique opportunity for advancement.
Is Alibaba becoming too big to fail? It’s a question that’s on the minds of Chinese regulators.
Alumni from around the globe weigh in on the new realities facing entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic world.
If the pace, abruptness, and unpredictability of change during the global pandemic has you hoping for a chance to catch your breath, MIT Sloan Professor of the Practice Bill Aulet has a word of caution. “The world never will be slower than it is today,” he says. “That’s a fundamental state of affair...
This counter-intuitive result emerges because countries actually have little choice in how much they must reduce contact levels to control the epidemic.
Raphaëlle Delpont, always wanted to pursue a technical degree in data science so she could bridge the gap between research and industry. Read more about how she navigated gender bias and her journey to MIT Sloan.
With vaccine rollouts projected to take many months, and a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus appearing around world, gasping economies are desperately in need of their own shot in the arm.
Almost everyone wants to do something about climate change, but it is challenging to know what levers to pull to make real change. Simulations may be the key to finding the answer.
Some of the most tragic ferry accidents in recent years have been the result of pilot error. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have found a solution—remove the pilot. Their new autonomous vessel, Roboat II, relies on algorithms, similar to those in ...
The name Angela Davis has been synonymous with radical activism since the 60s. In the intervening years, Davis has channeled those efforts for change into an equally impactful academic career. Now 76, she is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of several in...
